[The World For Sale<br> Complete by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link book
The World For Sale
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CHAPTER VIII
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There was the impulse storming in his brain, and it drove him across the street as the Boss Doctor walked away, and Ingolby entered the shop.

All Jethro realized was that the man who stood in his way, the big, rich, masterful Gorgio was there.
He entered the shop after Ingolby, and stood for an instant unseen.

The old negro barber with his curly white head, slave-black face, and large, shrewd, meditative eyes was standing in a corner with a violin under his chin, his cheek lovingly resting against it, as he drew his bow through the last bars of the melody.

He had smiled in welcome as Ingolby entered, instantly rising from his stool, but continuing to play.

He would not have stopped in the middle of a tune for an emperor, and he put Ingolby higher than an emperor.


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